Jean-Paul Willaime (born 1947 in

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, Ardennes) is a French sociologist specialized in contemporary

Protestantism Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to b ...

Christian ecumenism Ecumenism (), also spelled oecumenism, is the concept and principle that Christians who belong to different Christian denominations should work together to develop closer relationships among their churches and promote Christian unity. The adjec ...

, Secularism and religions, theories and methods in the sociology of religions.

Cursus

Jean-Paul Willaime obtained a PhD in religious science (1975) and in sociology (1984) in the

University of Strasbourg The University of Strasbourg (french: Université de Strasbourg, Unistra) is a public research university located in Strasbourg, Alsace, France, with over 52,000 students and 3,300 researchers. The French university traces its history to the ea ...

. He is the Director of studies at the

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(EPHE, Religious Studies section), is owner since 1992 of the studies management "History and Sociology of Protestantism" at the

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. He is also Director of the Institut européen en sciences des religions (Paris), member of the Groupe Société, Religions, Laïcités (GSRL), and since 2007 President of the Société internationale de sociologie des religions. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Archives de sciences sociales des religions (Paris), Social Compass (Louvain) and the Journal of Contemporary Religion (London). He developed the theory of ultramodernism around the issue of practices of

secularism Secularism is the principle of seeking to conduct human affairs based on secular, naturalistic considerations. Secularism is most commonly defined as the separation of religion from civil affairs and the state, and may be broadened to a sim ...

in France and Europe. He was awarded the Chevalier of the

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Main works

; Books * ''Profession : pasteur. Sociologie de la condition du clerc à la fin du XXe siècle'', Genève, Labor et Fides, 1986. * ''La précarité protestante. Sociologie du protestantisme contemporain'', Genève, Labor et Fides, 1992. * ''Sociologie des Religions'', Paris, PUF, 2005, 3rd ed. * ''Sociologies et religion. Approches classiques'' (with

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), Paris, PUF, 2001. * ''Les mutations contemporaines du religieux'' (codirected with Jean-Robert Armogathe), Turnhout, Brepols, 2003. * ''Europe et religions. Les enjeux du XXIe siècle'', Paris, Fayard, 2004. * ''Sociologie du protestantisme'', Paris, PUF, 2005. * ''Des maîtres et des dieux. Écoles et religions en Europe'' (with Séverine Mathieu), Paris, Belin, 2005. * ''Religion and Education in Europe. Developments, Contexts and Debates'' (ed. with Robert Jackson, Siebren Miedema, Wolfram Weisse), Münster/New-York/München/Berlin, Waxmann, 2007. * ''Enseigner les faits religieux, quels enjeux ?'' (ed. with Dominique Borne), Paris, Armand Colin, 2007. * ''Le retour du religieux dans la sphère publique. Vers une laïcité de reconnaissance et de dialogue'', Lyon, Editions Olivétan, 2008. * ''Religionskontroversen in Frankreich und Deutschland'', Matthias Koenig/Jean-Paul Willaime Hg., Hamburg, Hamburger Edition, 2008. * ''Lumières, Religions, Laïcité'' (under the direction of Louis Châtellier, Claude Langlois and Jean-Paul Willaime), Paris, Riveneuve éditions, 2009. * ''Les jeunes, l'école et la religion'' (under the direction of Céline Béraud and Jean-Paul Willaime), Paris, Bayard, 2009. * ''Pluralisme religieux et citoyenneté'' (under the direction Micheline Milot, Philippe Portier and Jean-Paul Willaime), Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Willaime, Jean-Paul 1947 births Living people French sociologists Sociologists of religion Knights of the Legion of Honour People from Marne (department) Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études University of Strasbourg alumni French male writers